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10/6/2006 marknau: [Fantasy Non-Heartbreaker] First Playtest
I conducted a one-hour playtest of my WIP, the result of which follows. What I’d like is to get some attention focused on the core mechanic: Successes, Dings, Complications, and…
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Participants: marknau, timfire, Adam Dray, Steven Stewart.

10/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] K. I. S. S.
So, three weeks ago I had a game where you wrote down recurring conflicts on 3x5 cards, and hoped that they'd gel together, then you traded those 3x5 cards back…
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Participants: TonyLB, andrew_kenrick, marknau.

10/1/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Dead of Night] a retrospective playtest report
It's coming up to the first anniversary since the release of my first game, Dead of Night. I was going to post an article about the production of the game,…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, marknau.

10/1/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Eleanor's Dream] Project Introduction and preliminary playtests
This is something I didn't plan on doing; I've been developing my game Eleanor's Dream on and off since the beginning of -05, and while I've been chatting about it…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

9/28/2006 Meguey: [Sign In Stranger] File clerk, some typing
This is Emily Care Boss' game in developement. Joshua, Emily, Vincent, Julia, and I all created worlds in private to start. We had a choice of planet size, and we…
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Participants: Meguey, Emily Care, andrew_kenrick, nikola.

9/27/2006 mratomek: [Mod Forces] When Mobs Attack
Been altering the rules lately. I was hoping to create a system where a character's Power Level is directly translated to a dice. For example, a PL 6 is a…
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Participants: mratomek.

9/27/2006 billvolk: [AKA] Fun with Cinematics
I finally hosted the first real one-shot playtest of All Kinds of Awesome, which began as a Tri-Stat setting but for which I've now made a significantly different system. The…
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Participants: billvolk, Adam Dray.

9/22/2006 Lxndr: [Ensemble] The Aztec Line
Wednesday night, my group started playtesting Ensemble, the design project currently heading up the Twisted Confessions line.  Armed with index cards and the appropriate amount of dice (but not so…
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Participants: Lxndr, Eric J. Boyd, jasonm.

9/22/2006 mratomek: [MOD Forces] Black Fire
Finally... Finally I finished the re-write of the rules (formerly Monster Rules), and got my game on. Last night we started a new storyline with the evil sorcerer Mordreg and…
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Participants: mratomek, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards.

9/22/2006 Altharis: [Elementalia] My first playtest. In story form.
Hey all, here is a quick recount of my first playtest of my new Elementalia rules, enjoy! During character creation, Marius Stoneriver the earth elemental was given stats of: Str…
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Participants: Altharis, Jonathan Hastings.

9/19/2006 redivider: Joy Division: monkey-moms, pocket universes & corn-of-life
Joy Division is a near-future role playing game of technological horror. Characters are agents of the Joy Division, a small but well-funded transnational espionage agency set up to neutralize major…
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Participants: redivider, David Artman, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

9/19/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest, Session Two
Our group got together Sunday for our second 'real' session of Galactic. Prep Session here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20683.0 First Session here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21025.0 Wiki pages on the whole thing here: http://random.average-bear.com/GalacticPlaytest/DenverPlaytest Okay, so...…
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Participants: Doyce.

9/18/2006 Artanis: [Iä! Iä! Ph'iles] Prep-less mystery & dramatic characters
Hello This is the report of the fifth playtest session of my mystery game, which I will use to present the game. I'll have some other threads coming up later…
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Participants: Artanis, Emily Care, John Harper.

9/15/2006 baron samedi: (Last Chronicles of Erdor) Players "refusing" Director Stance for tragedy
Hello fellow Forgeites! Last night, three players and I made our first playest session of the 3rd edition rules of my game "The Last Chronicles of Erdor". The game is…
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Participants: baron samedi, Adam Dray, Sovem, Ron Edwards.

9/14/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum]
Alright!  Finally a playtest of Misery Bubblegum that didn't explode on contact, strafing everyone nearby with hot, jagged, rules-system shrapnel.  Eric and I got together for a night of games. …
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Participants: TonyLB, Hans, Gaerik, TheCzech.

9/11/2006 Pyromancer: [Galactic]Karlsruhe Playtest: Session 0 - Smugglers and Battlestars
Two weeks ago I finally managed to gather my Galactic-Playtest-Crew. A somewhat more details report (in German) can be found at http://grofafo.org/index.php/topic,28847.0.html To summarize it: We had a ton of…
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Participants: Pyromancer, TonyLB, Frank T.

9/8/2006 charles ferguson: [TOTSG]: Some Hard Lessons Learned
Last night we had our 6th & final session of Throne Of The Spider God in it's current form. That form is heavily drifted from the draft I put on…
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Participants: charles ferguson, c, Valamir, John Harper, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, TonyLB, Reithan.

9/7/2006 Sovem: [Divinity Horizons] Epic Playtesting
So, last night we had a terrific playtest of Divinity Horizons. My wife and my two long-term gamers were there, as well as a newcomer to our group. Divinity Horizons…
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Participants: Sovem, Valamir, Wolfen, Spooky Fanboy, sean2099, TonyLB.

9/6/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries] Lost City of the Serpent People
My Game Chef 2006 entry of pulp exploration storytelling (see link in my sig) continues to develop! With a third member added to our gaming group, I can finally give…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, Lxndr, Graham Walmsley.

9/5/2006 jim pinto: George's Children: Playtest Session One
Hi, If you haven't been following my thread in First Thoughts, I'm writing a game called George's Children, set in a post-post world where everyone over the age of 12…
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Participants: jim pinto, matthijs, Ron Edwards, redivider, joepub.

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10/12/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] More people makes things tricky
So Misery Bubblegum has this system where you give each other your dice, and then people can use dice from other players to represent each having emotional influence over them.…
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Participants: TonyLB.

10/14/2006 Wood: [Messenger] First Run: "A and B"
Ran my Messenger system for the first time tonight, and to my slight surprise, it went very well indeed. No hitches whatsoever.  Characters were a conscience-stricken "Liquidator" and a…
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Participants: Wood, Everspinner.

10/16/2006 jasonm: [Infected] Camp Nerdly: The Inwood Zombie Fortress and Drama Club
Mark ran a game of The Infected, Eric Provost's in-playtest game of survival horror, at Camp Nerdly, and I got a chance to throw down with Frank Manna, Kevin Allen…
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Participants: jasonm, SNES Chalmers, Technocrat13, joepub, Narf the Mouse, Aman the Rejected.

10/17/2006 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Raiders in a foreign land
I ran the first playtest of the new revised playtest edition of BARBAREN! this Saturday at ConTor, a small local convention near Hamburg with a good mix of indie and…
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Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, JustinB, TroyLovesRPG, Noon.

10/18/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] The Big Grid
I haven't talked about Grey Ranks much, but I feel like I'm getting close to playtesting and will start asking for feedback on bits and pieces.  So:  In GR you…
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Participants: jasonm, Hans, Narf the Mouse, Bill_White, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman.

10/21/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Incentivizing Play
...which is a fancy way of saying that I'm thinking about bonuses and penalties. The core mechanic is a die roll that must exceed the current scene number (1 through…
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Participants: jasonm, Troy_Costisick, Hans.

10/22/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets] Making a better bullet
I've been tinkering with the rules for conflict resolution in Six Bullets for Vengeance, mostly as a result of the last playtest we did (which is here ). Over the…
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Participants: andrew_kenrick.

10/25/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] The seedy underbelly
I finally got a chance to do a full playtest of the draft rules of 'Touch of Noir' tonight and I got some great information!  We broke the rules and…
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Participants: Caesar_X, cpeterso.

10/25/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Character before conflict
So over on Story Games I had a discussion about the way that conflict structures a character ... more specifically, the pieces of a character which are not dependent upon…
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Participants: TonyLB, Bill_White, Narf the Mouse, WhiteRat, Danny_K, Dumirik, Steven Stewart.

10/28/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Traits and desperate acts
After analyzing my Touch of Noir playtest from the other night (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21915.0), I realized that I wanted to see character traits more defined during play instead of simply during character…
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Participants: Caesar_X, iain, JustinB, c, anders_larsen, Noon, Paul T.

10/31/2006 jlester: [Unnamed Espionage Project] Playtest
I'm cross posting this over from Story Games for the sake of a wider audience. So, after having realized that my spy game project was too big to get to…
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Participants: jlester.

10/31/2006 Steven Stewart: [Binary] First two Playtest sessions and some questions regarding wanking
Playtest Notes for Binary Introduction I have written this post about a half-dozen times. Each time it ends up being too long. Or too long that I think…
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Participants: Steven Stewart, Danny_K.

11/9/2006 mratomek: [Super Force Seven] Tactical RPG
After another long, long, long reworking of the rules, I finally got another playtest together. Most of the changes came from the great suggestions and feedback I received from this…
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Participants: mratomek, Valamir, Noon.

11/17/2006 mratomek: Can you think of any more ...
I am working on tactical RPG / Minis Wargame. I don't want the game to just quickly boil down to combat nor do I want is it intended to be…
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Participants: mratomek, 114211, komradebob.

11/17/2006 mratomek: Dice Pool Change and Conflict Resolution
Once upon a time, I used a system that simply converted your score into dice which you then rolled. If your score was 4, you used a D4; a 6,…
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Participants: mratomek, Ron Edwards.

11/17/2006 Dantai: [The Dragon vs the Gun] The Enemy Without
I had the fortune to play in a complete game of The Dragon vs The Gun last weekend. We managed to go all the way from chargen to endgame in…
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Participants: Dantai.

11/21/2006 Chris Gardiner: Age of Steel
I've been tinkering with a game I'm calling Age of Steel for a good while now. It's a little game intended to create action-packed single-session sword and sorcery adventures. It's…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, Ben Lehman, andrew_kenrick, Valamir, Simon C.

11/21/2006 redivider: [Heads of State] GenCon SoCal playtest
On Saturday I ran games of Palace Gates and Sic Semper Tyrannus at Gencon Socal. Both games were part of a single session.  During Palace Gates, players invented a fictional…
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Participants: redivider, jasonm.

11/30/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Eleanor's Dream] Playtesting with a 6-year old
Eleanor's Dream is my current big rpg project. I introduced the project here. I got my Finnish dream book (a central play component) for Eleanor's Dream translated last week, and…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, pells, Matt.

12/1/2006 David C: Keeping the group positive
It is a simple question, but a difficult answer. How do you keep your playtesting group positive? Does it depend on the group, or does it come natural?
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Participants: David C, timfire, TroyLovesRPG.

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